Síomha Callanan’s work is inherently linked to her surroundings and, having lived in Cork City, much of her work to date consists of various projects and explorations of the city centre and its peripheries. For this residency and exhibition she had a specific project in mind. The island on which Cork City centre stands has been an area of interest and intrigue in recent years. She proposed to explore the island in depth, creating a new body of work based entirely on this specific part of the city. Her aim was to walk every street on the island and take photographs of what she encountered.

During the residency, she used the project space as a base from which to go out into the city and make the work. She used the project space itself to research and plan her walks, to make notes and document her explorations. She also used the space to develop these ideas as well as to layout, edit and sequence the images and test out various ways of presenting the work for the culminating exhibition. She intended to experiment with various cameras and film types in the creation of this work – 35mm/120mm and colour reversal film – which opened the possibility of slide projection. TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space was a fitting venue for this project to come to life, as it celebrated the area around Triskel Arts Centre.